Image Styles - Beyond the Basics

Drupal Camp Asheville 2025 - July 11th-13th

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Rod Martin
of
DrupalHelps
Image Styles Beyond the Basics session slide with Rod Martin's headshot

Images can make or break your Drupal site.

Get them right — and your site looks polished, professional, and beautiful.

Get them wrong — and suddenly everything feels… off.

In this beginner-friendly session, we’ll go beyond the basics of Drupal’s image styles and show you how to finally take control of the way images show up across your site — without needing custom code or complicated workarounds.

We’ll cover:

  • Planning your image styles — so you don’t end up with a confusing mess later
  • How Drupal’s Focal Point module makes sure the most important part of every image stays visible (even in weird crops)
  • Cool extra tools like Image Effects Kit (IEK) (and others) for adding creative image effects
  • How to use image styles right inside CKEditor — so content editors can resize and crop images without breaking a sweat
  • Real-world tips for setting up flexible, reusable image styles that work across your whole site

This session is perfect for site builders, content editors, and anyone who’s ever said:

“Why does that image look so bad on this page?”

Come learn how to make your images smart, consistent, and way easier to manage — all using Drupal’s built-in tools (plus a couple of powerful extras).

No design degree required. No developer magic needed. Just smart Drupal tricks you’ll wish you knew sooner.